For this week's blog posting I found a website that maintains a series of pod-casts by multiple academics, dedicated to the study and research of Ottoman history. The particular podcast that I listened to was done by a regular contributor on the website; Chris Gratien, a PhD candidate "studying the history of the modern Middle East" at Georgetown University, and his two guests: Vedica Kant, a graduate of Oxford University's Middle Eastern Studies program, and Robert Upton a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Oxford University.
This particular podcast was titled "Social History of War" and deals with the Ottoman POWs (as well as POWs from other nations in western Asia) in World War I.
The beginning of the podcast opens with a recording of the voice of a Punjabi POW in Germany named Mal Singh. In the recording, from 1916, Singh expresses his desire to return to India.
The podcast then goes into discussion about the Indian Army, under British rule, were deployed to Ottoman Mesopotamia. It also brings up how many of the soldiers during the war were came from a much larger ethnic backgrounds than many people realize.
The 32 minute podcast can be listened to by following this link
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/search?updated-max=2013-01-13T16:39:00%2B02:00&max-results=5
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